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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I suggested a long time ago that Apple just cut a deal with Intel for "Mac Mini NUCs" and keep the replaceable lids. I'll take a tie-dye lid...
Best idea on this entire thread. Superb idea. I'll take a lid with a cat on it please.
It then gets more interesting when you stick a usb-c port under the lid. Inductive charger for the iPhone lid? / multiple 2.5" drive bay lid? have a screen (or even touch screen) lid? Imagine a music equalizer running on that last one
Right now there's a kind of "soulless corporate artwork" feel to the Mac lineup. That kind of thing would bring some fun back to Macs
I suggest that’s because the “bottom to mid-tier user” wants to buy cheap hardware and it’s very difficult to make money selling cheap hardware. The PC OEMs selling cheap hardware make their money from all the bundled software (often referred to, rightly or wrongly, as “crapware”) from Norton, Adobe, and whoever else, that they are paid to include. But even then the margins are razor thin. Apple’s lack of participation in that market is a deliberate choice, not a lack of vision on their part.
You can’t be both a luxury company and also target the bottom end of the market.
well ... bottom-end of luxury then but needless to say "quality = luxury" and that applies on many levels like the careful and overdone (very thoughtful) Apple packaging or the rock-solid construction of the reasonably priced G5, this, and communication of a robust mission is what Apple was always known for - adjusted for today's times I'd pay more for those same standards.
That's what luxury should mean and those privileges are worth the investment.
That's what luxury should mean and those privileges are worth the investment.
Where's this been since Job's died, in iPhone land?
Glass phones don't say 'robust' to me, even when made with 1000Lb super strong Corning Gorillas; and iTunes etc. just keep getting worse.
I can't help but notice...still no official confirmation from Apple of anything related to (probably, maybe, hopefully, almost certainly) forthcoming Mac Mini 2018, no nothing. Is it really that difficult for them at least to expand just a little on that rather vague and lacking details "...we do plan for Mac mini to be an important part of our product line going forward" statement?
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Didn’t Mr. Jobs give us the first glass front/back iPhones? Stop with the ‘Steve would never ...’
Even if he did, he usually saw the error of his ways after screwing up bad. The company took a decisive shift away from computers after he died.
Too late with the idea I'm afraid, British Gas sell a home thermostat not too far in size from the Mini, comes with optional coloured surrounds (at a price of course)
"Match your thermostat to your walls, with colours from the Dulux signature range"
https://www.hivehome.com/products/hive-thermostat-frame
Wow. I guess you can have it both ways if you really want to.
Yes, because that would mean they actually intend to update it one day. It's an important part of their product line because they still sell 48 of them every month and margins on it must by now be about 98%.
Then what, I guess one day Mac Mini 2014
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I wonder how many spinner drives are left in Apple's inventory. That's how many more Minis will be produced
Steve would never let the Macs die on the vine, like they have been for years now.
See, not all ‘Steve’ comments are BS
There will be a time when tablet computing destroys what we consider the “traditional” computer-and something will destroy that later... we aren’t there yet, and likely still years (decade) out. Letting your computer products and workflow solutions wither, will only help the competition. If I’m already invested in xx, then when the shift happens I’ll likly stay with xx.
Fingers, mouths and eyes are serious holdbacks towards more advanced computer format.
There's a little work out now on thought reading machines. That might get us past the grossly physical problems holding back efficient interface design.
HDDs are also standard in the 2.3 GHz and 3.0 GHz iMacs. Fusion, which includes a HDD, is standard in all the other iMacs except the iMac Pro. SSD is available as an option across the range, as is the case with the mid and top of the Mac Mini range.I wonder how many spinner drives are left in Apple's inventory. That's how many more Minis will be produced
Like it or not HDD is likely to remain around for a while in desktop computers as it is remains the most cost effective storage option by far when storage of large amounts of data is the priority.
Don't like it?
You don't have to have HDD. Stump up a lot more cash for SSD and you get the snappy performance you desire, or require.
Your money, your choice.....
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Not that I doubt work is being done in this area but the article was published 3/31/18 very near April Fools Day. Long before transcribing thoughts becomes common-place mankind will suffer serious loss of humanity - long before we let someone inside we as a species would need to evolve to keep order and privacy locked away - using advanced computer interfaces to connect to damaged minds isn't necessarily a good thing.
I would suspect a new input format would precede such advancement first - such as using blocks of information where each side of the block generates a different sentence construct which is added to the next block and so on.
It’s ironic that some of the same people who complain about Apple having high prices are the same ones who say SSD should be standard. They somehow miss the fact that they’re advocating for a price increase.
Reality: the alternative to a $499 4GB/500GB HDD base mini isn’t a $499 8GB/256GB SSD mini; it’s an $899 8GB/256GB SSD mini.
A refresh will get you a faster CPU and GPU, and sure there could be a slight price decrease, but Apple’s had years to cut the price of that config if they thought it was overpriced, and they haven’t done it (yet).
It’s upsetting to those that think the mini should be inexpensive, but I’ll say it again: there’s no reason to expect price cuts with a mini refresh.